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49 Int'l Soc. Work 5 (2006)

handle is hein.journals/intsocwk49 and id is 1 raw text is: International Social Work 49(1): 5-8p Sage Publications: London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi DOI: 10.1177/0020872806059396 Editorial Because I am writing this for the first issue of a new volume in a new year, it seems appropriate to echo a greeting familiar to English speakers, namely 'Health, wealth and happiness' to all readers, although I am sure we would also want to express more general hopes, particularly for peace and social justice. Additionally, it is timely for some of us to remind ourselves that, of course, the matter of when the New Year starts, or indeed whether the year is 2006 or some other number, depends on the cultural (and often reli- gious) background of individuals, communities and whole societies. Despite the widespread adoption of the Gregorian calendar by large numbers of the world's population (not least those involved in trans- national commerce and any form of international activity), there are still significant proportions of societies, for example in China, Ethiopia and Thailand or the Jewish or Muslim diasporas world- wide, for whom the western New Year (and its associated number) is an irrelevance or only a minority concern. It is one aspect of the role of this journal to clarify cultural differences between societies or groups within them, and many articles in this issue fulfil this commitment. Unfortunately, following the various disasters in 2005 noted in the last editorial, we must also now add the earthquake in October in the Asian subcontinent which destroyed whole settlements and killed thousands of people. This was centred on Kashmir, with effects spreading to Afghanistan as well as adjacent parts of India and Pakistan. Again, the issue of local and international aid to particular communities as well as transnational co-operation in an area where border conflict is still an issue are in the forefront of news reports and there is concern about the longer-term implications for sur- vivors. Again it is clear that this event has touched the lives not only of people in the region but also of those families and commu- nities now located in other countries and continents. The psycho- social needs of people directly affected by disasters are not seen as

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